Dodgers Erase Five Run Deficit and Win World Series

After the Los Angeles Dodgers dominated the Yankees in the first three games of the World Series, the formerly silent Yankees’ bats woke up for Game 4 on the way to an 11-4 victory. That continued for the first three innings of Game 5, with New York scoring five runs in the first three frames.

Then came the top of the fifth inning. Los Angeles scored five runs, all of them unearned, as Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe each committed errors. Pitcher Gerrit Cole failed to cover first on a Mookie Betts grounder to that side. Freedy Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez both drove in a pair of runs after that, and the score was tied at 5.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth to regain the lead for the Yankees, but in the top of the eighth, Gavin Lux and Betts each hit sacrifice flies to give the Dodgers a 7-6 lead.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts brought in Walker Bueler to pitch the ninth. Bueler, normally a starter, was L.A.s eighth pitcher in the game. He retired the side in order, and the Dodgers won their eighth World Series title.

Freddy Freeman, who hit a game winning grand slam in Game 1, was named series MVP. He hit .300 with four homers and 12 RBIs, tying Bobby Richardson’s record for RBIs in a World Series. Richardson did that in seven games in 1960.